Pub Date : 2021-09-28DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2021.1978707
Alexandre Leskanich
ABSTRACT H. G. Wells confronts in his final writings a world that has experienced more than can be historically comprehended; where history seems incapable of offering succour to human life in its pursuit of intellectual repose and stability. He speaks presciently to our situation in the Anthropocene, evincing a pervasive sense of melancholy symptomatic of existence in a constantly self-historicizing world. I conclude that in the Anthropocene human beings ultimately confront an enduring mismatch between historical comprehension and the circumstances of immediate existence; a mismatch made all the more disturbing given our traditional reliance upon history to affirm our continuity with the past. Wells ultimately alerts us to a hyper-historicized world that has superseded its previous history, that has left it behind forever, and is, as the Anthropocene affirms, continuously antiquating itself with its means of technological refinement.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2021.1964758
D. Weberman
Chiel van den Akker’s 2018 The Exemplifying Past: A Philosophy of History is an ambitious attempt to break new ground in developing a philosophy of history that builds on the ideas of narrative and...
Chiel van den Akker 2018年出版的《例证过去:一种历史哲学》是一次雄心勃勃的尝试，试图在发展一种建立在叙事和……
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2021.1966201
A. McGrath, Laura Rademaker, B. Silverstein
ABSTRACT This article outlines the possibilities of a deep history practice that engages with rather than sidelines Indigenous historical knowledges. Many Indigenous people insist that their knowledge of the deep past demands engagement. They do so, we suggest, because scientific historicism and Indigenous knowledge-systems and historicities already impinge upon and inform each other: they are intertwined. We propose ‘deep listening’ as a way historians might contribute to bringing these practices of deep history into more explicit conversation and address some of the challenges of doing so. Finally, we consider the example of the deep history of the Willandra Lakes in New South Wales Australia, revealing how this approach might allow for a more mutually satisfying deep history of the region.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2021.1962121
P. Maurya
{"title":"Enlivening the English Civil Wars through Historical Fictions","authors":"P. Maurya","doi":"10.1080/13642529.2021.1962121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2021.1962121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46004,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13642529.2021.1962121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46762689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2021.1988249
Alex Souchen
ABSTRACT Archival research is an important starting point for scientific studies on underwater munitions, but marine scientists have voiced concerns and criticism over the completeness, validity, and reliability of historical records. However, labelling primary sources as ‘incomplete’ demonstrates that scientists have largely misunderstood how and why archives accumulate information. This article seeks to familiarize readers with the benefits and challenges of archival research on underwater munitions. It explores the role of the archives in preserving historical sources and offers explanations as to why ‘gaps’ in information develop over time. In doing so, it elucidates how the archival grain was shaped by a variety of factors and actors over time, and shows how ‘gaps’ emerged from more than just national security, military secrecy, information laws, and archival science. The agency of past scientists, historians, bureaucrats, and private military contractors all played a role in shaping the nature of documentation about this concerning legacy of war and military pollution.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2021.1963597
Ilkka Lähteenmäki
ABSTRACT In this paper, I argue that history is a large-scale transmedia project that is not understood as such, and this causes friction when history is engaged with through media in which historical research is not usually presented. To do this, I go through Henry Jenkins’ ten-step definition of transmedia and argue that history matches the definition very well. This transmedia discussion brings forth the concept of ‘world-building’, in which narrative is superseded by world-building as the all-encompassing concept and as the beginning point of analysis. In the analysis, history (as a product of historiography) is treated as phenomenon instead of a discipline and compared to other forms of transmedia world-building.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2021.1963592
Marcelo Durão Rodrigues da Cunha
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2021.1985244
Vilmos Erős
ABSTRACT The following interview with the former editor-in-chief of Rethinking History, the recently deceased Professor Alun Munslow was published in Hungarian in the Hungarian historical journal Aetas in 2009. In the interview Professor Munslow discusses his family background, his career, scholarly and educational/teaching experiences, the birth and concept of the journal Rethinking History, his ‘scientific’ credo, futures plans, and so on. As far as the author of these present lines (and the interviewer) knows, Professor Alun Munslow never gave an interview in English (2011), and the original text of this discussion will help get to know him and his ideas a little bit better. The text likewise serves to commemorate him as one of the ‘founding fathers’ of Rethinking History. It is also relevant given the fact that Professor Munslow regarded the interview as a highly significant genre, a kind of ‘ego-history’, in which historians can even better position themselves and their approach to history.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2021.1985225
Younes Saramifar
ABSTRACT ‘We are history’ is a declaration that traverses identity labels, generational memories and nation building through history. I demonstrate that announcing we are history is a political-mystical practice, and living with evocative historical affect permeated from the reminiscent of past violence. It allows social actors to indulge in a type of transcendence, which expands them into a cosmological scale that exceeds social imaginaries and banalities of everyday life. I borrow from Iranian revolutionary youth’s experiences and my ethnographic journeys among Iranian volunteer combatants who fought in Iraq and Syria to illustrate how history is localized in settings which socialization occurs in postwar societies. By way of anthropology of history or doing history in anthropology, I explain how the claim we are history is an attempt to become a community of individuals via history and how social actors turn history into a world-making practice that informs political participation and justifies for them to support authoritarian traits of a state.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-15DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2021.1936819
A. Friberg
ABSTRACT For a long time, the reception of German historian and theorist Reinhart Koselleck’s work focused on disciplinary and methodological aspects of conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte). However, in recent years, there has been an increased interest in Koselleck’s more theoretical discussions on historical time and temporality, highlighting his oeuvre of a theory of the conditions for possible histories (Historik). Taking its cue from the current trend, this article revisits the Koselleckian category of horizon of expectation (Erwartungshorizont) in light of Ernst Bloch’s work on the principle of hope (Das Prinzip Hoffnung) and the concept of utopia as the forward dreaming of the Not-Yet (Noch-Nicht). By exploring and developing the utopian as a formal category – used as a supplement to Koselleck’s conceptualization of the relationship between the space of experience and the horizon of expectation – the article argues that Koselleck’s theory can be reframed into one that can fully account for the utopian imaginaries of political thinking.
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